Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.

Expectation

For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth! The former ones will not be remembered; no one will think about them anymore.

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

Since all these things are to melt away in this manner, what sort of people must we be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness,

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, and the sea existed no more.

The manifestation

"They will belong to me," says the Lord who rules over all, "in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

Dear friends, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

General references

I wait for your deliverance, O Lord.